Captain Corelli's Mandolin
ISBN:
9780433397533 (0433397535)
Pages no: 435
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
War,
Contemporary,
World War II,
Greece
Never going to read this or anything else by the same author. His politics are very likely foul. DNF
This story deals with the Italian invasion and occupation of Greece during World War II, and though the love story between Pelagia, a Greek woman, and Captain Corelli of the Italian army is important, I'd say the central character in this book is the Greek Island of Cephalonia itself where the story...
In the middle of last summer, I got a wild desire to read Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I searched and searched and searched for a copy -- in every bookstore I passed and the local library. I did not want to satisfy the desire to read the book with a copy obtained through the impersonal and anonymou...
Love it until the last 20 pages. What was he thinking with that ending. Poetic, gripping, fun.
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